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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

And just like that, the new Google Chromebook is now sold out

The Verge
Last
week Google announced a $249 Chromebook. On Monday they started they
started taking orders. Guess what happened? Less than 24 hours later and
it’s now sold out! Now to be fair, we don’t know how many units Google
had to begin with, so we can’t exactly call this news a major success,
but it’s important none the less because it proves that people will buy
Chromebooks if they’re priced right.

And just like that, the new Google Chromebook is now sold out

The Verge
Last
week Google announced a $249 Chromebook. On Monday they started they
started taking orders. Guess what happened? Less than 24 hours later and
it’s now sold out! Now to be fair, we don’t know how many units Google
had to begin with, so we can’t exactly call this news a major success,
but it’s important none the less because it proves that people will buy
Chromebooks if they’re priced right.
What
exactly is a Chromebook and what makes this new $249 model different
from the previous generation models? Think of a Chromebook like a laptop
that can run only one application: Chrome. The operating system, known
as Chrome OS, is based on Linux, it uses the age old windowing user
interface, and it auto updates itself every 6 weeks. This new $249
model, which is made by Samsung, is the first ARM based Chromebook.
Translation: It uses the same kind of chips that companies traditionally
put inside mobile phones.
Which chip is inside? Samsung’s Exynos
5250, which is a dual core chip that uses ARM’s new Cortex A15
processors. We’ve known about this chip for a while now, but this new
Chromebook is the first device to actually use it. Rumor has it that
we’ll see smartphones and tablets use the new Exynos 5250 in 2013.
Is the ARM Chromebook fast? Kevin Tofel at GigaOMdid a performance evaluation
and reached a conclusion that shouldn’t surprise any of you: It’s
slower than the equivalent Intel based Chromebook, but it’s not slow
enough to make it unusable. He goes on to say that his family didn’t
notice any sluggishness when testing out the product.
So there you
have it. It’s hard for us to tell you to buy this Chromebook because we
haven’t touched it yet, but hey, if you think you can live with a
machine that does nothing but browse the web, $249 seems like a price
tag that’s incredibly hard to resist.
Think about it, it’s the same price as a Nexus 7.